“A woman wakes up in a room with no memory of who she is or how she got there…” is the summary for the latest Portal fan-made film to join the ranks of what is already a seemingly overwhelming number of quality productions to come out of the community. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, composed by Mike Zarin (who composed the soundtrack of the first Inception trailer) and starring Danielle Rayne, Portal: No Escape is not something you’d want to miss. Be sure to check out the video after the jump!

It would not be much of a surprise to see Valve attending Gamescom this year, having been absent from E3, of which has recently been made official on the convention website. But what would be surprising is that they are, according to a handful of sources, going to be showing off Dota 2 for the first time in public — but in the form of an invitational tournament, or a “promotional tournament”, as they put it.

As a result of this, Paloma, best known for the SourceOP server plug-in and the infamous TF2 Idler program, will be transferring TF2Items.com over to a user named ‘Nephyrin’. Furthermore, he will also be releasing the SourceOP source code (i.e. making it open source to everyone) as a result of it being “unwise to continue privately working on and releasing plugins based off of [Valve’s] intellectual property”.

Started in November of 2007 (a month after the initial release of Team Fortress 2), the Control Point podcast became one of the most popular and prominent Team Fortress 2 podcasts in the community (alongside others such as Kritzkast and Friendly Fire). Throughout its history, the hosts would jokingly hint about the podcast ending on the 100th episode, and thus the podcast eventually came to an end in January of 2010 with the release of the 100th episode.

According to his website, the full-scale replica will sport an art-piece in and of itself but also a museum, as he argues that “computer game architecture and game maps have become a new and yet undiscovered form of cultural heritage”. A proposal has been submitted to the Rhizome Comissions Program and is estimated to cost USD$5500, with an estimated release being Fall of 2011.

A user by the name of ‘Frenkie’, a Holland-based award-winning computer case modder, recently showed off his latest creation on Overclock.net: a real-life combine-style wall-mounted H.E.V. charging unit as seen in Half-Life 2. What’s so awesome about it? It’s an actual case for a computer. The base structure was based off of two Coolermaster Elite 340 cases, to which he cut using a large outline of the in-game model by way of CAD. The entire thread logs his progress from start to finish, so be sure to read the whole thing!

Earlier this month, CVG.com interviewed Gabe Newell (co-founder and managing director of Valve) as part of their “Game Changers” series, a weekly feature on their website that takes a look at the favorite games of the industry’s leading figures. Hit the break to find out what Newell’s 3 favorite games are and why.